Consumer holiday exuberance highlights the stark contrast between these groups.
Mr. Chambers embodied the exuberance for consumer products, saying he owned eight Flip devices.
The demand for Pandora, a company from Oakland, Calif., that is facing increasing competition from the likes of Amazon and Apple, underscores the market's heady exuberance for consumer Internet companies.
Set against Britain's £1.2 trillion economy, any direct boost is likely to be tiny.Others argue the games will create such exuberance that consumers will rush to the shops filled with a desire to buy things.
And the heightened exuberance the consumers showed this holiday season was also a positive sign.
It was not enough, however, to sustain Wall Street's exuberance for the consumer electronics company that has seemed to do everything right in analysts' eyes.
Countries around the developing world are severely cutting gasoline subsidies, forcing consumers of new cars to contain their exuberance.
Exuberance fired the 1990's boom, with consumers and businesses spending freely on the promise of ever-greater returns.
There may be an explanation for the return of the ghoulish mind-set that was prevalent among marketers during the days of "irrational exuberance" seven or eight years ago, despite not much exuberance among consumers these days.
